Texas (Sprint Cup) post-race discussion

Several storylines in this one...


-Of course, Johnson wrecks. Mark closes to within 75 points. (...go Mark go!)

-MWR has stellar outing, but not so stellar results. (Ambrose and Reutimann were super fast, top-5 cars, but fuel mileage relegated them to the mid-teens.)

-Carl Edwards finally had a decent car (although still not all that great), and Montoya takes him out. And proceeds to blame Carl for "racing to close to him."

-Brad Keselowski's debut for Penske was not as good as I expected. Looks like Stremme might not have been the only problem with that car.

-AJ Allmendinger finishes 10th in #44 FORD. (Two races in Fords, two top-10s for RPM )

-Kurt Busch conserves enough fuel to make it the full distance and win the Dickies 500. His margin of victory (over 25 seconds) was the BIGGEST since electronic scoring was implemented in 1993. And, some lucky fan walked away from TMS with $1 million.


Lots happening, maybe we'll have a championship battle now!

So, what did you think?

Johnson's wreck and the last few laps were definitely the more exciting aspects of the race. The rest of it I thought were quite boring.

MWR has done a great job this year (not including Waltrip), and I expect them to be even better next year when Truex joins. Ambrose would've been a threat along with Reutimann to make the Chase this year if Marcos had not been caught up in some wrecks and had some problems this year.

I was listening closely to Juan's interview to see if he would apologize for wrecking Carl- he didn't. I am not surprised either. It is very hard to believe Carl has not won this year and may not.

I expect Brad to do much, much better than Stremme, but I think he will have a rough time next year overall. I think he'll be mid teens to low 20s in points next year.

I've been impressed with RPM's results in Fords so far. Let's see what they can do every week in them.

Kurt Busch winning...well, it's alright I guess. Better than the other Busch winning. Great call by Tryson who I'm sure will be getting some calls.

TeamBlueOval wrote:

Several storylines in this one...


-Of course, Johnson wrecks. Mark closes to within 75 points. (...go Mark go!)

-Brad Keselowski's debut for Penske was not as good as I expected. Looks like Stremme might not have been the only problem with that car.

Lots happening, maybe we'll have a championship battle now!

A miracle happend on lap three- now what's gonna happen? Jimmie will likely sweep the races since he "needs" them

or Newman

doubt it- Jimmie will need another outing like that one for anyone to have a shot

Jimmie Johnson wrecked, but ESPN focused on it way more than was necessary. They were mentioning that his car was in the garage every 20 seconds, it seemed.

I no longer pull for Juan Pablo Montoya after that interview. He has absolutely no class whatsoever. You get loose, and take out a guy beside you and it's his fault??

I expect MWR to become more of a force next season when they have three good drivers (Truex, Reutimann, Ambrose).

I don't know if it was the car or the driver when referring to the #12 car. Brad didn't qualify good, but he ran around 20th-25th on average. I guess we will see how he does. Still, Kurt Busch has had his best season since joining Penske and even Sam Hornish has looked good this year.

Glad to see AJ get a top-10 in his first Ford outing. Maybe this is a sign of things to come...

Fuel mileage helps a driver get a 20+ second lead...